Instructor:
Maya Rook
Contact
Info: mayarook@yahoo.com
I’m available to speak with any student upon scheduling an appointment
for a mutually convenient time either before or after class. If this time is
not convenient, I can arrange my schedule to meet you on another day or time.
Likewise, feel free to email if you have any questions about class.
Textbook: Jennifer D. Keene, Saul Cornell, and
Edward T. O’Donell Visions of America: A
History of the United States, Volume I: to 1877
Course Description: This
course surveys the history of the United States from the pre-Columbian period
to the end of Reconstruction (1877). It analyzes the political, economic,
social, and intellectual events of Native American history, colonial history,
the American Revolution and Constitution, the early national period, expansion,
slavery, and the sectional differences leading to the Civil War and
Reconstruction.
Course Requirements
1. Attendance and Participation: It is critical that each student attends each
class. This class is built on the principal that every enrolled student makes
an important, distinctive contribution to class discussion. You are expected to
READ, to THINK, to SPEAK, and to LEARN. Your voice counts. This class will be
better if you are in it! If you need to miss class, please inform me as soon as
possible.
2. Assignments: In order to develop your ability to
critically analyze and interpret the past, students are expected to complete
in-class and homework assignments throughout the semester. You will be required
to read a document, look at an image, or view a video online and respond to the
question that accompanies the document. Various chapters from the textbook will
also be assigned throughout the semester.
3. Mid-Term Exam: The mid-term exam will take place in class on
Thursday, February 28. It will cover material from the first half of the
semester. A mid-term review will be held the week prior to the exam.
4. Final Project: The final project will be due in class on
April 16. It will consist of an essay and a creative element OR a research
paper. This topic for this project can be from any material covered during the
entire semester. Proposals for the final project are due March 21.
Grading
Attendance and Participation 20%
Assignments 30%
Mid-Term Exam 25%
Final Project 25%
Class
Schedule
T Jan 8: Introduction
Th Jan 10: Native
American Culture
·
Chapter 1:
People in Motion
T Jan 15: Contact
between Cultures
·
Chapter 2:
Models of Settlement
Th Jan 17: Utilizing primary documents and writing historical
essays
T Jan 22:
Colonial Virginia and Enslavement
·
Response
on the Middle Passage due
Th Jan 24: Middle Colonies: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania
T Jan 29: New
England Puritanism
·
Response
on City Upon a Hill due
Th Jan 31: The
Salem Witch Trials
·
Response
on Salem Witch Trial transcript due
T Feb 5:
Eighteenth Century Intellectual Movements
·
Response
on artwork due
·
Chapter 3:
Growth, Slavery, and Conflict
Th Feb 7: Toward
the Revolution
·
Chapter 4:
Revolutionary America
T Feb 12: The
Declaration of Independence
·
Response
on Declaration due
·
Response
on Pursuit of Happiness (in class)
Th Feb 14: John Adams (film)
T Feb 19: The
Constitution
·
Response
on Bill of Rights due
·
Chapter 5:
A Virtuous Republic
Th Feb 21: Midterm Review
T Feb 26:
Creating an American Culture
·
Response
on Changing Education Paradigms (in class)
·
Chapter 6:
The New Republic
Th Feb 28: MIDTERM
T Mar 5:
Jefferson and Jackson
·
Chapter 7:
Jeffersonian America
·
Chapter 8:
Democrats and Whigs
Th Mar 7:
Westward Expansion
·
Response
on Donner Party due
·
Chapter
11: To Overspread the Continent
T Mar 12: NO
CLASS
Th Mar 17: NO
CLASS
T Mar 19:
Landscape Art and Transcendentalism
·
Response
on art video (in class)
Th Mar 21: Civil
Disobedience
·
Proposals
Due
·
Response
on Civil Disobedience due
T Mar 26: Women’s
Rights
·
Response
on Declaration of Sentiments due
·
Chapter
10: Revivalism, Reform, and Artistic Renaissance
Th Mar 28:
Conditions of Slavery and Forms of Slave Resistance
·
Chapter 9:
Workers, Farmers, and Slaves
T Apr 2:
Abolitionism
·
Response
on Frederick Douglass due
·
Chapter
12: Slavery and Sectionalism
Th Apr 4: The
Civil War
·
Response
on Gettysburg Address due
·
Chapter
13: A Nation Torn Apart
T Apr 9: Popular Memory of the Civil War
Th Apr 11:
Reconstruction
·
Chapter
14: Now That We Are Free
T April 16: Final Projects Due/Presentations
Th Apr 18: In-Class Essay and End-of-Semester Celebration!
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